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Friday, January 29, 2016

BLUE SHAPE of the WORLD

Between witch hazel, mountain laurel,a curving earthen footpath slopesto the high point.Seven sisters in the river, seven white islandsbright as the ash of an animal firein the grey sun. She paints her blue shape of the worldin the clear waters we grieveas the tallow of the beast colors the stream.The rain tower descends with a talonas the back of the mountain cages her heartwith the winter buried we shall enter. About John Swain:John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Least Bittern Books published his second collection, Under the Mountain Born.